[Asis-l] HCIL Spring Seminar Series - 3/30 David Cavallo

[Kollet, Sharmon]

Hi All,

We will be having our next HCIL Spring Seminar Series Talk on Tuesday, March
30th at 1:00pm.  David Cavallo from the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group
will be our next guest speaker.  The talk will be taking place at 1:00PM in 3258
AV Williams Building on campus (please note the building change- this talk will
be in AV Williams on the UMCP campus- this buidling is attached to the Computer
Science Instructional Center).  

The talk abstract and his biography are below:

David Cavallo : "Learning in the Digital Age" 

Abstract: 
The world resonates with rhetoric about learning - new needs and new
opportunities. However, while the volume of the standard rhetoric accurately
reflects an urgently growing sense that learning in the twenty-first century
will be radically different, its content seldom questions conceptual and
organizational constraints inherited from the nineteenth. Our work aims to
elaborate the conceptual framework and the language to support thinking on a
more holistic, systemic level about what being digital can mean for learning.
Our design of technology facilitates these goals by simultaneously attempting to
facilitate learning on both a micro and macro scale, and furthering our
understanding of learning and development. In this talk I will provide more
detail of this emerging framework, using cases from our projects in a variety of
settings around the world, from an alternative learning environment we created
in a variety of settings. These range from juvenile detention facility in Maine,
to schools in Brasil, Thailand, Costa Rica, and Mexico, to informal settings in
the U.S., rural Senegal, Brasil and Thailand. I will also discuss some
ramifications for the design of new technologies for learning based upon this
new framework and these projects.


Bio:
David Cavallo co-directs the Lab's Future of Learning group, focusing on the
design and implementation of reforms in learning environments and educational
systems, on the role that technology can play in this process, and on the design
of new technologies for learning. Prior to joining the research staff at the
Media Lab, Cavallo led the design and implementation of medical informatics at
Harvard University Health Services, and was a principal and consulting software
engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation's Artificial Intelligence Technology
Center. Cavallo has designed and built numerous knowledge-based systems for
industry, most notably a set of intelligent microworlds for training air traffic
controllers. He founded and led the Advanced Technology group for Digital's
Latin American and Caribbean region. He has advised numerous heads of state and
ministries of education on the adoption of advanced technologies for learning
and the reform of educational institutions. Cavallo received his MS and PhD from
the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and a BS in computer science from
Rutgers University. 

Also, please remember to SAVE THE DATE for the HCIL Symposium and Open House on
June 3-4.  Registration will open on April 1st.  Take a look at our website for
more information: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh .
Thanks!
Sharmon Kollet
Coordinator
HCIL
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